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Triple Triple Little Star: Rare Triply-Eclipsing Triple Star System Discovered

It may be a cosmic double-triple as astronomers have just announced the discovery of a peculiar stellar trio exhibiting triple-eclipses, consisting of a binary star orbited by a giant tertiary companion. Thanks to an impeccable line-of-sight alignment with Earth, this newfound system is offering scientists a front-row seat to the future dynamics of stellar evolution.

In the vast expanse of our galaxy, stars rarely live in total isolation. Many are locked in binary pairs, circling each other in perpetuity. Far more elusive, however, are hierarchical triple systems—stellar trios where two stars dance closely together while a more distant third star loops around them both.

Now, a team of researchers led by Brian P. Powell of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center reports the discovery of a spectacular and incredibly rare addition to this cosmic family: TIC 295741342. The system was identified using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). While TESS is primarily tasked with hunting for exoplanets by looking for the tiny dips in light caused by a planet crossing a star, it also routinely catches dramatic stellar phenomena.

“TESS has observed tens of millions of stars from which we can extract viable lightcurves. We use machine learning as an initial step to reduce the size of the data set by approximately 99 percent, leaving only those lightcurves likely to show the shape of an eclipse,” Powell told Universelost.com.

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u/TomaszNowakowski — 6 hours ago

Human eye?

This is helix nebula , read cool nebula you can even see the white dwarf in the middle tbh this is the best nebula ever to be discovered

u/lxte_ut — 3 days ago

Uranus is sooo cool

YO this planet is really crazy its like having 98° axis tilt and it's more like rolling ball than orbiting sun whatever I love this planet

u/lxte_ut — 3 days ago

The answer is... The sun burns through Nuclear fusion by converting hydrogen into helium and thus releasing energy and heat.. The sun is not a ball of fire but a ball of plasma and gas.. The sun is not on fire. Fire on Earth is a chemical reaction while the suns case is a fusion reaction

u/fattick- — 4 days ago

Mt kilimanjaro. An extinct volcano.. Both of the two highest peaks of Africa were once volcanoes...

u/fattick- — 4 days ago

What i call i exists inside the structure called brain. But brain has the power to create a whole world as dreams and make the i experience the dreams? It does background super tasks without even asking the i for permission. If the heart muscle never tires why did some other muscles evolve to tire?

Carina Nebula

Eta Carinae super nova.. The star survived.

u/fattick- — 5 days ago

The sun Peaks at a wavelength of approx 500nm which is green-yellow part of visible light. [everybody/object with a temperature above absolute zero &gt;0K emits light of all wavelengths and peaks at a certain wavelength because of the Temp it 'the body/object' has]

Man [life] produces heat naturally internally therefore they have a temperature above absolute zero >0K. Hence they produce light.

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But light is not only composed of visible light [RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, VIOLET] but also many other like infrared, ultraviolet, X-days, Gamma-rays, Microwaves.. Plus the visible light all are under the Electromagnetic Spectrum..

But our eyes only detect the small range of visible light in that vast ocean of light.

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Experiment #1:

In your mind or literally place one life form inside an enclosed box such that that life form is not incident to any other source of light outside that box.

If you point a visible light detector like the human eye towards the life form inside that box, you will see nothing but darkness..

If you point an infrared detector like a infrared camera towards the life form inside that box, that camera will establish a large glow of light.. But in infrared form of light.

We can't see ourselves glow because our eyes only detect visible light which is a very small part of the EMS.

Electromagnetic spectrum.

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Those planets that are invisible until light from the sun reflect from them towards you, are not invisible with the lack of sunlight.. Some or all generate or retain some heat in their cores. And therefore they are above absolute zero therefore they produce light but they still peak in infrared which is invisible to the human eye hence darkness.

Until you face an infrared camera to planet O/i/y/a [I mean random planet x] and it will detect a glow of infrared light 😵‍💫...

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Then why Some Stars glow in orange-red, blue-white,...

The sun Produces light of all wavelengths but peaks at a approximately 500nm wavelength which is the green-yellow part of the visible light.. Therefore it shall appear as green yellow to the an observer with a pair of light sensors that only detects the visible part of the Ems and diffrent to an observer with a diffrent pair of light sensors that detect a diffrent part of the EMS

Same as Betelgeuse in constellation Orion that appears orange reddish only because red-orange is/are the nearest from of visible light that nears infrared that Betelgeuse peaks in.. Betelguese peaks in infrared only because of its temperature. 💔

Same as Rigel also in the Orion constellation that appears blue-white because it peaks in ultraviolet and blue-indigo-violet are the nearest visible parts of visible light that nears ultraviolet that Rigel peaks in.

Then why does man that glows in infrared don't glow in red just as Betelgeuse which also has a peak wavelength infrared..

The answer is because Infrared is also not comprised on only one wavelength but of various wavelengths that together are the infrared....

Betelgeuse produces high intensity Infrared while man/life produces low intensity infrared.

If alien X has a light sensor that detects only X-rays, they cannot see the stellar surfaces of the sun or Rigel or Betelguese 💔😔 [it's all crazy]

So we cannot say that the universe looks like this just because we see it like this using our human eyes.... Remember they {the human eyes} only see a small part of a very vast Electromagnetic spectrum. So there is a lot that we cannot see [😔😔] or see a very small portion of it.

Whatever '''''it'''''' is.....

EMS = Electromagnetic spectrum

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WE DO NOT SEE IT ALL

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Moses and the burning bush maybe?????

u/fattick- — 5 days ago

Every point of light a galaxy made of millions and billions of stars and planets and certainly various forms of life.

u/fattick- — 12 days ago